Fish "Tails"

September 2011: Captain Bob Stevens emailed us these great photo's and story of the 42 LB King he caught!

"We were using the chartreuse Revelator with glow tape on both sides, a A-TOM-MIK proam live fly Dipsey back 110 on a 3 setting. The fish fought for about 40 min and made an initial run of 420 feet it made several smaller runs as well. It barely fit in my net and was very hard to hoist over the transom. When I saw it I couldn't believe the size. It was no doubt the biggest I ever caught in my 23 years as Captain. Thanks so much for the awesome products that help me with my successful fishing!"

                          

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August 2011: Results for the Church Tackle & Tackle Haven 2011 Trefecta Challenge (3rd Annual)

Dustin's Dream (Capt. Shawn Gaul) was the overall winner with 166 lbs 10 oz on 15 fish for the 3 tournament run.

Coho's Aim (Capt. Bob Lausman) was our 3rd leg winner with 71 lbs 5 oz on 5 fish. Coho Bob shared some of his strategies: "We used Stinger spoons, yellow killer 60-70 on downriggers, on 300,450 copper with TX-44's, Glow Shockwave bait heads with cut bait behind chrome and frog color rotators on wire divers, 300 coppers with TX-44's.  Tin Can dodgers with hypnotist Raptors Flies on downriggers right on the bottom. We fished 80-140fow, best was 105-120fow."

 

 

Nate Schuman aboard Tackle Haven was the Big King winner with his catch weighing in at 24 lbs 5 oz.

 

August 2011: Cliff Dohm caught this 9.2 lb Salmon and 8.5 lb Trout using a combination of our blue and glow Revelator, white and blue Shockwave, and the TX-44 Super Planer!

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July 2011:  Rigging Boards YouTube video sent by Justin Heider from Justin Heider Sport Fishing!

watch-v=b4p4HeLOOEM

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July 2011: Vanessa LaFortune age 7 with her first Brown Trout caught on Lake Michigan. The fish weighed 15 lbs., and was caught using a Blue Bubble Revelator on a Dipsy, and Rapture flies. A special day on Striker Charters. A dad can never be too proud. Follow this link to see this pic on Face Book.

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uly 2011: 25 lb Brown, 11 lb Steelhead and 19 lb King!!!

 

 

May 2011: Striker Charter's with their great mess of Coho!

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April 2011: Ocean fishing with the Walleye Board.... photo sent in by Scott and Frank Tenkel from their trip to the Florida Keys! Dolphin fish and Tuna were caught behind the Walleye Board...our products are great for salt or fresh water fishing. Thanks guys. Keep up the great fishing!

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April 2011: Congrats to Elmer Rudlaff, Coho Bob Lausman, and Randy Wells!!!!

Capt. Elmer Rudlaff, Coho Bob Lausman and Randy Wells captured their 1st Brown Blast Tournament victory on Saturday, April 9th.  They weighed in a 5 man DNR limit totaling 37 lbs and consisting of 3 Lakers and 2 Coho. 

The Brown Blast, a Michigan Sportsman forum based tournament, was held at the port of St. Joe.  32 teams searched for brown trout to gain an extra 5 points per brown. 

Trigger, Rudlaff's 20 ft Lund made a 40 minute run on a flat sea to search for Lakers.  Team Trigger's program consisted of 5-10 colors of lead core with Church Tackle TX-22 planer boards to open the spread along with 2 riggers.  Stinger Modified Dolphins & Dang were the colors that did the damage.  The Lakers were definitely hungry as 12 trout were boated in the first 2 hours of the tournament.  The Lakers ranged from 6-12 lbs.  The crew quickly switched to a Coho program to finish the limit. 

Team Trigger ended up with 87 points out scoring Wild at Heart with 80.2 pts.  Shrek 2 had 76.4 points and also captured a 14.6 lb King to take home the big fish prize.

Great job guys!!!!

 

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April 2011: Email sent in by one of our customers who used our TX-6: We ended up with 20 Coho and 18 Browns today and here is a pic of the biggest Brown.

 

 

April 2011: Email 1: Congrats to Captain Mike and crew on the Striker. This Friday evening Charter Mike's client, Matt Reel from Fort Atkinson captured this “behemoth, Slobosaurous Brown Trouties Rex”, aka HUGE Brown Trout, which weighed in at 34.16 pounds on the certified scale at Brossman’s Meat Market here in Racine a few hours after she was landed. It may very well be the top ten largest Browns ever taken in the world, two of which were taken right here in Racine just a few miles north of the harbor. Mike's client's fish came in 44 feet of water on a black and silver shallow crankbait on Mason  2 color leadcore (18lb) with a 17lb Seaguar Flourocarbon leader behind a Church Tackle Walleye Board. The epic fight lasted about 30 minutes and ended with one happy client and a smile for the rest of the crew. The Dotline Salmon net and 1st mate Jim did the job. Nice Job Guys!

 Coho Bob 

Email 2: CONFIRMED>>> It is official this is a Line Class World Record!  

Way to Go Matt Reel!!!!

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April 2011: Indiana State Record Striped Bass caught using Church Tackle Walleye Board! Bass weighted in at 39.08 lbs in May 2010. Congrats Captain Shay Vandivier and Jon VanHook!  Thank you for sharing your amazing catch!

 

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October 2010: Pro Fisherman Mark Martin said our TX-44 Super Planer, "works fantastic! I have tried up to 8oz.  of weight so far without ill effects. Jim Juntilla an outdoor-writer just saw them working yesterday. He took shots  of the boards and head and shoulder shots of me along with pictures of wall-hanger Splake a cross between a brook trout and lake trout they look like giant brook trout".... here are the shots. 

 

 

 

 

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Feb. 2010:14lb Walleye caught on St Joseph river by Coho Bob Lausman using the TX-6

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Customer Fish Photos, Stories, & Advice   

December 2010 Fish Tail Winners Nick and Keith Haven of Avon Lake Ohio !

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November 2010 Fish Tail Winner: Elmer Rudlaff of Troy Michigan!

Elmer Rudlaff fished Lake Erie on November 12th  and 13th. He caught 15 Walleye with an average weight of 8 pounds

on day 1 and 7 pounds on day 2. The big fish of the trip was 10 pounds.

Elmer says, "...we trolled with Church Tackle Flex Clip trolling weights ... and Dual Planer Board Clips..., that worked great."

 

 

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October 2010 Fish Tail Winner: David C. Anderson of Grand Rapids Michigan!

 

Here is a picture of a nice sized King Salmon that we had taken back in mid July, while fishing out off the port of Onekema, Mi. We were fishing on my friend’s 33 ft. Sea Ray Express Cruiser. Because the (3) downriggers were not producing anything and, after a couple of hours of trolling with no fish, we had to change out our tactics and it was decided that it was time to put 150 ft. and 300 ft. copper rigs out. The salmon seemed to be very finicky that particular morning. Teaming up the rigs with Stinger Stingrays Monkey Puke spoons and, pulled the lines on Church Tackle, “Walleye Boards”. Those clips never had any slippage during the entire time that we had the copper rigs out.

We were experiencing a fairly stiff Nor’Easter wind that day, making it very choppy for our conditions on the big lake. Although, had we not put those copper rigs out on boards, we never would have caught our fish.

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May 2010 Fish Tail Winner... Casey Gibson of Dowagiac Michigan!

This is my 1st year of running copper so it is new to me and my partner. The day before on 5-2-10 we go out and try our new copper, we let all of our copper out and clip our boards on, which was a different brand than Church’s. We try to let out our copper and it just runs behind the boat, so I call one of my buddies to ask what I am doing wrong, he proceeds to tell me that I have the wrong brand of boards.  I couldn't believe it would make that much of a difference, but I take his word for it. I get out of work early on 5-3-10, my partner Dr. Carlton Lyons meets me at the launch, I told him I have to run over to Tackle Haven and pick up some new boards. So we run over there and pick up a pair of the TX-22’s. We get on the water and Doc is assembling the boards as we head down the river. We make it out to 165 fow on a 300 heading and start setting poles. I couldn’t wait to run these new TX-22 boards, so I let all the copper out like the day before, clip the board on, the board takes of to the side like it isn’t pulling anything, amazing!! I was truly scared of loosing a board fishing for salmon, because I know the "other brand"  I had used would pop off all the time fishing for Walleyes. The connection point on the TX-22 is flawless, there is no way they can come off. So Doc reeled in the 1st screamer which was close to 18 lbs, which came on a Dreamweaver sos spoon. The next fish was mine, and it was very close to being the same as Docs, except his was close to being a ½ lb bigger than mine. So I told him that we should take a picture of both fish so people didn’t think we were taking a picture of the same fish!! LOL. We ended our day 2pm-8pm catching 6 Coho’s and 4 Kings in 135 -165 fow just south of the piers in St.Joe. Thanks for making such a awesome product.
 

April 2010 Fish Tail Winner.... Bert Herriman of Alpena Michigan!